The World - News from Aug. 4, 1987
About 200,000 black miners will go on strike at South Africa’s gold and coal mines unless their demands for higher wages and better working conditions are met, union officials warned. Cyril Ramaphosa, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, said the strike called for Sunday could shut 28 of the nation’s biggest gold mines and 18 coal mines. Ramaphosa said the strike call was prompted by deadlocked negotiations with the white-run Chamber of Mines, an umbrella organization representing mine owners.
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